19:49 Just got back from a lengthy (6 hrs) but very informative lecture from Brian McDonald on storytelling. Though I'm still not going into writing, I learned a lot about the assumptions I make about trying to write a story and how to tackle it. #

23:13 If my stupid brain could just figure out how to handle edge quality painting in Photoshop ( Read more... )

00:00 @asaphira-sachi Not to mention one of my all-time favorites, Naono Boura :D She draws beautifully sculpted men, AND they're usually very novel... #
@asaphira-sachi I guess one could make the argument that lots of the stereotypical ukes aren't much MORE girly than some guys in non-yaoi anime, but I guess with the introduction of a seme type, lots of mangaka sort of ( Read more... )

I think this is old news now, but any of the yaoi fans on my flist kind of excited about

THIS?

All I know is it's a 13 episode remake, and this time it's supposed to be scripted (or something) by the original author whose novel it was based off of. Sounds like it might be the same seiyuu principals, too. Anyway, a few things:

1. Same character ( Read more... )

( Jan. 5, 2009 )

This morning at Fuck-Me-Not-Another-All-Nighter o'clock, while managing to put off my global climate change paper for yet another hour, I got the bright idea to just, for shits and giggles, upload my BL dramas onto my iPod ( Read more... )

First free day post-finals, so of course I spend it waking up obscenely late (and only because I got a phone call) and doing reviews of dated shounen ai titles ^_ ( Read more... )

So as it turns out, the first Okane ga Nai OVA was released already (without my knowing! Tsk.) Which means, whoo hoo, more yaoi on the video market! I think now we can officially start counting the number of yaoi anime titles on the market on MORE THAN TWO HANDS! *le gasp* And it's porny, which is yet another rarity. Well, in that non-explicit ( Read more... )

They told us they'd have the power back on by 2:30 PM yesterday. The power wasn't back on until after 12 AM THIS MORNING >.Anyway, figure drawing yesterday was FUN! We had a new model named Nancy, a starving psychiatry student with a really fun personality--she made small talk, and during the breaks she would come around and look at the sketches ( Read more... )

Someone posted a lovely HuRoy doujin called "Kimiiro Terror" (by some circle I'd never heard of) to .. er, one of the FMA communities I'm on. Looks to take place in an AU of Hughes' and Roy's stationing in Ishbal (or even pre-Ishbal?), and they're sent out for some reason to do something. Anyway, sex ensues, and it's very very pretty. And yet, ( Read more... )

I had to leave Yaoi Con early today on account of familystuffs, but then there was familystuffs to tend to when I got home, so ... recap with photos laterzzzzzz ( Read more... )